CVS apologizes after managers call cops on black customer

The manufacturer’s coupon that Hudson tried to use at a CVS on Friday before a manager called the police. Facebook

Rhonda Young
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17 July, 2018, 02:14

"So, THIS just happened: I had the police called on me for attempting to use a coupon at the CVS Pharmacy located at 6150 N. Broadway in Chicago!".

According to Hudson, the second manager said it looked "fraudulent" and refused to answer her questions.

Hudson connected her experience to a spate of incidents-most famously the case of "Barbecue Becky"-in which white onlookers called the police on African Americans for littleor no reason". Officers did not generate a police report and "peace was restored", the spokesperson said. "Our Region Director in Chicago contacted Ms. Hudson as soon as we were made aware of this incident". No, I'm not African-American, I'm black.

CVS Apologizes After White Manager Called Police on Black Customer Over Coupon

According to Matson's Facebook page, he recently became the president of the Log Cabin Republicans of IL, and he was a delegate for Donald Trump during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The man appeared nervous and shaking, a reaction Hudson said she didn't observe before the video.

Camilla Hudson said she was trying to use a manufacturer's coupon at a local CVS Friday evening when the manager, identified as Morry Matson, said he had never seen a coupon like that before and claimed it was a fake.

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The City of Chicago's Board of Election Commissioners and its handwriting expert agreed with several of Sullivan's complaints after reviewing the pages - primarily that five of at least 13 sheets of signatures, save for two names, were written in Matson's own handwriting and listed addresses for some of those signatures that weren't homes. We have completed our investigation, and as a result the two colleagues who were involved are no longer employed by CVS Health.

CVS apologized to Hudson and says it doesn't tolerate discrimination against customers. Hudson wrote in her Facebook post, which has since gone viral.

Three officers reportedly arrived but did not take any action.

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Chicago Sun-Times reported on the apology by Woonsocket, Rhode Island-based CVS July 14. "Profiling or any other type of discriminatory behavior is strictly prohibited." .

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